1. Adapter requirement for PCI adapter
1.1 The NIC on your Ethernet adapter must be RTL8139 series and the Subsystem
Vendor ID must be 10ec and the Subsystem ID must be 8139.
* You can contact your card provider to get the Subsystem Vendor ID and Subsystem
ID. Or you can use the following method by yourself to check the Subsystem
Vendor ID and Subsystem ID.
- Select the "Apple System Profiler" from the Apple Menu.
- Select the "Devices and Volumes" page from the "Apple System Profiler" window.
- Check the "Card Name" field in the information of the PCI-slot where your ethernet
adapter is plugged. The content of "Card Name" is in the form of pcixxxx,yyyy where
xxxx is the Subsystem Vendor ID and yyyy is the Subsystem ID.
1.2 If the Subsystem Vendor ID and Subsystem ID is not 10ec,8139, please contact your
card provider to get the driver for your adapter or follow the following steps to patch
our driver to work with your adapter.
- Get a binary editor to edit the driver.
*** You can use "General Edit Lite" editor You can download "General Edit Lite" from
ftp://physgi.phy.ncku.edu.tw/pub/mac/editor.
- Use this editor to open the driver file "RTL8139x Driver".
- Select "Unlock Data" from the "View" menu item to unlock data of the driver file to
enable the editor to modify the driver file.
- Click on the lower frame to activate the lower frame.
- Replace all the pci10ec,8139 items with your pcixxxx,yyyy by using the "Replace"
function provied in the "Replace" menu item in the "Find" menu item.
- Save the driver file.
note: "Quadrivio General Edit Lite" is a product of Quadrivio corporation. Please read
the text file within the "Quadrivio General Edit Lite". You can contact Quadrivio
corporation for more information.